tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post6114376311259457376..comments2024-03-21T07:37:30.475-04:00Comments on Light reading: Table-talk for December 7Jenny Davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-11058866147950533012008-12-13T12:14:00.000-05:002008-12-13T12:14:00.000-05:00Take Kung fu!Take Kung fu!intentsandpurposeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17033978500897543062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-63618291309972218082008-12-08T11:08:00.000-05:002008-12-08T11:08:00.000-05:00The first two Burke quotations I'm finding interes...The first two Burke quotations I'm finding interesting vis a vis Paul Virilio. The French Revolution was a revolution of movement...but England was already on the move - though not as much as after the French revolution. <BR/><BR/>The third quote is really something else - extremely amazing. It made me think of Hermann Broch's comment that the language of management would soon become the language of life. It also made me think of Robert McNamara. Finally, it made me think of Wallace Stevens: (to paraphrase) "reality is neither the infant a nor the stooping polymathic z" Stevens also has described, I think, the antithesis of what Burke spells out with his "old man, standing on the tower, who reads no book / his ruddy ancientness beholds the ruddy summer."Paul Devlinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05931755750549699626noreply@blogger.com